Root Canal Treated Teeth as a Potential Cause of Illness

Root canal dental surgeries are universally, in the knowledgeable natural health community, considered to be a significant health liability since they are dead anatomical tooth structures which are quite susceptible to reinfection, if indeed the infection has ever completely left them. Teeth are extremely porous internally and considered by many to be actually impossible to sterilize entirely of the bacteria which caused the tooth to become initially infected leading to the need for the root canal surgery in the first place. Read this link describing this situation in detail wherein the author quotes a German doctor who’s 40 years of practice have shown that 97% of his terminal cancer patients have root canals.

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And removing root canaled teeth properly is extremely important with the big concern here being that the infection, still silently present inside many root canaled teeth, can often leak out through the root tips to also quietly infect the tooth socket around the roots of the tooth. So the socket will most often be also infected along with the tooth, and the socket must be carefully cleaned out after the tooth extraction or the infection will simply continue to exist within the body. Most dentists neglect this extra work thinking that the socket will heal itself but the holistic dentist will be quite concerned about this problem and want to clear the socket of any remaining infected tissue after the extraction. Removing the tooth itself is just the first half of a job done correctly while also clearing further infection from the socket finally completes this procedure when it is done correctly. This will leave the patient as safe as possible afterwards from any hidden remnants of infection that could very easily travel or migrate throughout the entire body over time possibly causing illness and disease in organs and tissues even remotely far from the mouth area and for which the medical people will be unable to find the true cause.

This basic problem has much to do with the fact that dentists in North America are trained only in dental schools while, by comparison, European dentists, often much more concerned about total body health, must train first as medical doctors before they can specialize in dentistry like any other health care specialty. European doctors, like common sense farmers caring for animals, have been carefully trained to focus upon the influence of the health of the teeth as a direct indicator of the overall health of the entire body. While in North America, the teeth are commonly of little interest to the medical community which leaves dental problems solely to the dental community, there being very little communication between the two.

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Understanding GI

The human digestive [gastro-intestinal] tract--also called the GI tract--is a lengthy hollow organ tubular system designed to process and absorb nutrient materials from our environment which fuel all of our internal biochemical processes directed at growth, repair and normal ongoing physiological functions.

The largest single digestive organ is our small intestine which carries out most of our digestive processes, absorbing into our bloodstream almost all of the nutrients from our food. The small intestine, contrary to its anatomical name, is an average 23 feet/7 meters long [~4 times longer than the human body!] and it has an undulating 'brush border' internal surface which greatly increases its average overall absorptive internal surface area for taking in food to ~250 square meters/~2,700 square feet, the staggering equivalent of the total surface area of a doubles-sized tennis court!

The large intestine, also called the colon, which follows, is, by comparison, only 5 feet/1.5 meters in length with simply a smooth internal surface which absorbs water from the remaining unwanted food materials that the body will later eliminate. The small intestine is called ‘small’ because its internal width is only ~ 1 inch while the large intestine’s width is ~ 3 inches giving us this paradoxical large and small naming confusion which is oddly based on measurements of the width rather than the obvious great difference in the lengths of these two very important hollow digestive organs.

Finally, again for comparison, the human esophagus [from the Greek oisophagos, which means ‘to carry to eat’] is a collapsed only 10inch /25cm long fibromuscular tube which dilates around food materials as it transports them downward to the stomach with the muscular action of swallowing. And the stomach, which is ~12 inches/~30 cm long and 6 inches/~15cm wide, is also a hollow organ but one that will greatly expand from an empty volume of ~ 50 milliliters/~ a 2oz shot glass to a full dilated volume of ~ 1 to even 2 liters or approximately one quart or more.

Next, we’ll discuss the digestive enzymes and acid production that actually break all of our food down for absorption because understanding how all this works helps us understand what is actually going wrong when we become ill and, also, how to fix it all using safe natural medicines that do no harm.

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Glenburnie, ON, Canada, K0H 1S0
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Heart Case for HT Month Feb 2015

Homeopathic Medicine as developed by German physician, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), and a host of other contributing doctors who became very interested in his discovery, puts forth a brilliantly new and different perspective by which to better understand and successfully treat most cases of ill health harmlessly.

Homeopathic medicines are extremely diluted vaccine-like preparations made from all the pollutants and germs that harm and disrupt the human body and its organs, systems and tissues and also from the plants and minerals that strengthen them. The word ‘homeopathy’ translates to ‘same disease’ referring to the vaccine-like origin and preparation of these medicines. Homeopathic laboratories require several weeks to carefully manufacture each medicine using specialized equipment which dilutes and then aggressively shakes [similar to the action of a paint shaker] only one initial drop of the substance over and over again until it is mathematically impossible for even one molecule of it to be found remaining in the solution. This repeated dilution and vigorous shaking finally creates a water and alcohol molecular imitation of these often dangerous substances which are thereby made into harmless but still effective medicines as demonstrated in the heart [HT] case below. Each is a micro-vaccine mimic composed only of modified water and alcohol molecules which will induce the body to safely and harmlessly eliminate the same substance from its own organs, systems and tissues.

A True and Actual Homeopathic Medicine Heart Case

Burning chest pain and a racing 160 beat/minute heart rate--as if her heart would jump out of her chest--had forced a middle aged Ontario woman to the ER twice in the Fall of 2014. Defibrillator shocks to her heart and 2 ‘blood thinner’ pharma drugs [Xaralto and Avapro] from the medical doctors constituted her treatment although she continued to experience brief episodes of racing and skipped heart beats every day or two afterward. She could also both hear and feel her heart pounding in her ears upon any exertion such as climbing the stairs in her home. Continually worried and anticipating another emergency episode, she began seeking homeopathic alternative medical care and was given a sequence of homeopathic prescriptions which gradually, from October thru January, seemed to resolve her symptoms.

HT Case Treatment Summary:

Most cases of ill health of any type will be the final result of the cumulative negative effects upon the body of several environmental pollutants and low level chronic infections combined. Similarly, this woman with serious heart symptoms was successfully prescribed, over a series of 6 office appointments spaced approximately 2 weeks apart, a sequence of homeopathic micro-vaccine medicines that gradually reduced her heart trouble until she felt normal again. The medicines which unburdened her heart tissues are listed below. Understanding that all homeopathic medicines are very safe and non-toxic micro-vaccine mimics composed only of modified water and alcohol molecules which are made into a molecular imitation of the substance after which they are named and labeled, this woman’s heart problems responded very well to these natural medicine RX’s:

1]  Lyssin 30c--rabies vaccine thought to be brought home in the saliva of vaccinated house pets

2]  Penicillin 12c--from antibiotic prescriptions and treated non-organic meats

3]  AMetals 12c--a mixture of the 6 toxic metals found in metal amalgam dental fillings

4]  Tetanus 12c--for unkilled childhood inoculation

5]  Dptmmr 12c--for unkilled childhood combination inoculation

6]  Ruta graveolens 30c--an injury plant-based medicine

7]  Polio salk 12c--for unkilled childhood inoculation

8]  Varicella 12c--for unkilled chicken pox virus

9]  Paraquat 12c--the most common chemical herbicide

10] Toluene 12c--a common petroleum class pollutant--a benzene based grease and paint thinner solvent and octane booster for fuels--often contacted from the ink on store purchase receipts

11] Sulphuric Acid 30c--exhaust fumes

12] Zingiber 30c--homeopathic Ginger--used as an overall stimulant to the organs, systems and tissues

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Tax Free

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s 10th federal budget on Tuesday, February 11th this week announced that naturopathic doctors will be added to the list of health care professionals whose services are exempt from the GST/HST under the Excise Tax Act. The exemption took effect immediately as of the next day after the budget on Wednesday, February 12, 2014.

The Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors [CAND] has exerted concentrated efforts on demonstrating to the government the positive impact that exempting the GST/HST will have on Canadians seeking a more natural approach to their health care and we are pleased to see the government's recognition in this recent budget announcement.

 

The CAND applauds the federal government for exempting GST/HST on services provided by naturopathic doctors since this move will provide greater access for patients seeking a proactive approach to their health care needs and for those looking for an individualized, whole person approach to prevent and treat health problems which now have the conventional medical system overwhelmed and outnumbered.

"Naturopathic doctors are, indeed, primary healthcare providers. They integrate standard, medical diagnostics with a broad range of therapies", said Dr. Pat Wales, ND, Chair of the CAND. "Having patients pay taxes on essential primary health care services didn't sit well with our members, or our patients, and we are pleased that the Government of Canada agreed".

Naturopathic doctors are regulated/licensed in five provinces and two more are soon to follow. Naturopathic doctors can, and do, work together with other medical practitioners as part of a patient's overall health care team resulting in improved outcomes in some of the most chronic and costly areas of the healthcare system including cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

"Patients want greater health care options, partnerships, and access tools that will empower them to become and remain healthy", added Shawn O'Reilly, Executive Director of the CAND. "Removing taxes on services provided by naturopathic doctors will not only help remove the barriers to such options for patients, it will help ensure our healthcare system stimulates the economy for future health care sustainability".

Please note, however, that the GST/HST is still due on the sale of any medicines, supplements and health products.

To help bring this significant legislative tax change to reality, you can listen below to the Beatles singing Taxman. There seems to be no live group performance available except for one by George Harrison which follows as well. But this is fitting because George wrote the song in 1966 and he composed it in anger over the British government taking 95% of the Beatles' earnings which had placed them in the top tax bracket.

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Message in a Bottle

Successful homeopathic case reports always reveal so much clearly thought-out, biologically compatible, non-toxic health care delivery that it verges on the miraculous. This is why I use this system of medicine developed by a brilliant group of doctors from the 1800’s. And, since Homeopathy functions on the basis of the vaccine theory, the original reason for a now-cured illness is written on the label of the bottle of medicine that brought about the cure. This teaches us what to avoid in the future in order to stay healthy. For example, if homeopathic Penicillin gets you better, then you can be certain that you have been suffering from a residual Penicillin mould infection probably as the result of an earlier doctor’s prescription. So, in the future, we know to be very wary of a Penicillin prescription because we now know what misery it can cause in the long run. [This would be analogous to your house being invaded by ladybugs long after they have killed all the aphids in your garden. They don’t just stop there! They keep multiplying and searching for something else to attack!]

Another example would be the recent case of a woman [age 30] who complained to me of a 10 year history of heartburn, indigestion and fatigue. She had lots of burping and refluxing
/regurgitation of food back up into the mouth that was worse from consuming coffee or alcohol or food of any type. She also had mild nausea in the mornings and absolutely no appetite until lunch, after which the heartburn and reflux would just start up again. As well, she craved ice and was very fond of chewing ice cubes. Her case was cured completely over a 6 week period in the summer of 2011 using homeopathy alone and, to bring this about, the medicines used were 1] Mercury 12c [to minimize the effects of this common pollutant in order to strengthen the immune system] and 4 homeopathic vaccines to combat 4 germs that love to live in the human digestive tract: 2] Helicobacter pylori 12c, 3] Enterococcus 12c, 4] Campylobacter 12c and 5] Hepatitis B 12c.

She is now, after 10 years of misery, totally symptom-free since last summer and needs to take no follow-up medicines to stay well. And she does not crave ice anymore either [ice craving is a homeopathically known symptom of mercury poisoning], although I would expect this problem to return because metals are soooo difficult to totally remove from the body and usually represent a chronic health problem of their own. More on this and other cases later.

So, because this case went to a lasting cure using these homeopathic medicines, we know that this individual is immune-compromised, probably due to many years of carrying metallic dental fillings, and that she was harbouring these 4 germs chronically in her intestinal tract. The first issue to prevent any infections is cleanliness and cleanliness means washing well but also knowing where not to go to pick up germs.

Helicobacter is a bug infecting 50% of the population in developing/underdeveloped countries so holiday flight destinations to poorer countries should be avoided. Enterococcus has long been one of our normal  intestinal bacteria but has recently become one of the new, dangerous, antibiotic-resistant ‘super bugs’ found in hospitals, a trip to which can change your life. Campylobacter is a food-poisoning microbe and the Hepatitis B virus is associated with extended overseas travel and with body fluid contact such as during use of unclean needles as in getting a tattoo or having sexual contact. The characteristics of these infections tell us this person had probably been traveling overseas to poorer countries, had risky sexual or needle contact, had also consumed contaminated food and likely had been in a hospital or close to someone else that had been in a hospital. All avoidance lessons to be learned!


Dr. Richard Putnam BA, DC, ND
1478 Unity Road, Unit 5
Glenburnie, ON, Canada, K0H 1S0
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www.drrichardputnam.com

A Pollution Case

David Suzuki is correct when he indicates to us all that everyday industrial pollutants, common to our unnatural, modern lifestyle of convenience do indeed cause illness.

This is not a fictitious story on his part, and, to corroborate David’s warning, here is a common case sample from my files that demonstrates a health problem due to environmental pollution:
This is the case of a boy in his late teens participating in a summertime, group, bicycle trip from Kingston to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada a few years ago. Having never met the family before, his parents called to tell me of his trip and how he had called them from his cell phone at the side of the road to please come with the car and pick him and his bike up because he was simply unable to continue pedalling due to a terrible pain that had developed in the right side of his upper back in the shoulder blade area. They called me because, at the time, I worked from a rural office close to his location. Could I possibly see him right away and try to help him??

I told them to bring him to the office asap! They arrived out front in the parking lot within the hour with one wheel of the bicycle protruding from the trunk of the car and I took him, groaning with  pain, into my office right away since he was suffering so badly. He had not fallen or injured himself at all and had no previous history of such a pain. I discovered, however, what I thought was a fairly serious case of liver irritation due to petroleum [gasoline] poisoning and I prescribed a homeopathic medicine designed by doctors, yes 100 years ago!, to remove petroleum from the body. He and his family then left with the medicine and strict instructions for him to take a dose of it every 20 minutes for the next several hours!

Most pollutants will adversely affect the liver, located in the right upper abdomen, which can send referred pain spreading from that organ to any location in the right upper quadrant of the body [especially the right shoulder and neck]. The heart will cause similar pains on our left side. The liver, our largest organ, functions very similar to the oil filter in our cars. That is, it filters all of our blood [about 5 liters in the average adult] every time it circulates out from the heart and back again thus cleaning out impurities so as to spare all our other organs [brain, thyroid, lungs, pancreas, etc] from the devastating effects of pollutants we absorb each day. Doing its job, the liver can become quite upset trying to contain all this poisonous chemistry to the point where it will create much pain which is normally treated with general pharmaceutical pain killers like Tylenol which are, themselves, toxic to the liver!

The next day the boy’s parents called me from their home again, this time to say thank you very much because their son’s pain had disappeared so soon after leaving the office and he felt so well that they drove him [and his bike, of course!] further along the route where they caught up with the group which he rejoined until they all finally arrived in Ottawa as planned. The boy called me himself also a few days later to thank me personally and to say that the day before the bike trip he had been refilling the gas tank in their family boat at their cottage on a nearby lake. Being in a hurry, he had refuelled while standing in the boat rather than taking the portable tank out and placing it on the stationary dock surface. Waves had come along rocking the boat strongly enough that he spilled a lot of gasoline into the bottom of the boat which he subsequently spent much time cleaning up with rags. This exposed him to strong gas fumes which he inhaled for quite a while during the clean-up and he wondered if that had anything to do with his severe pain the following day during the bicycle trip. I’ll leave it up to you to figure that one out!

In my next blogs I will move away from this, perhaps, too intense focus upon petroleum toxicity (you can see that I intercept petrol toxicity cases quite frequently!) and explore, for you, other cases from my files that are related to other types of pollutants such as the ‘heavy metals’ and then we will move on to cases that involve acute and chronic infections with actual germs. Please note that petroleum causes much more serious health issues than just back pain as evidenced by the fact that rates of Leukemia [cancerous proliferation of the red blood cells] are much higher amongst full serve gas station attendants. Keep in mind, as we move along, that, just as David Suzuki says, the pollutants weaken our immune systems so we cannot effectively fight the germs. These cases, as you will discover, are all strung together with this common theme.

Dr. Richard Putnam BA, DC, ND
1478 Unity Road, Unit 5
Glenburnie, ON, Canada, K0H 1S0
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The Main Reason for Most Illness

A fantastic video at safecosmetics.org has inspired me to rant and rave again.

The main reason for most illness, pain and discomfort is the toxic effects of chemical pollutants. 35 years of experience as a 6 day/week, front-line, alternative, health care provider allows me to make such a bold statement. The bad news is that we are constantly bombarded with these toxins at every turn and there is no question in my mind that our daily exposure to chemicals in everything from the food we eat to our personal products and even laundry detergent, is causing most of our health problems.

The good news is that I seem to have stumbled upon this discovery AND the way to combat this very serious health problem, returning people to good health. Unusually hyper-dilute medicines prepared from each pollutant are taken as harmless templates showing the body what to repair.                        

The video at safecosmetics.org will be an eye-opener as most of us are completely unaware of how many chemicals we come in contact with on a daily basis. No matter how wonderful they may smell, these very dangerous, manufactured substances accumulate gradually within our tissues. Surprisingly, most perfume, cologne, make-up, deodorant, soaps and other products contain these toxins. What’s worse is that there are no laws preventing this and with no one protecting us we are all sitting ducks for disease!

The point of this blog is to shed light on the fact that industry is poisoning us and government is allowing it. They’d love to keep us all in the dark but I won’t stop blogging until they stop sneaking harmful chemicals into our bodies!

Dr. Richard Putnam, ND

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